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Now is a good time to get rid of the burmuda grass in your garden. When the soil is soaked down to eight inches or so you have better luck with not breaking off the runners as you pull them up. Each runner has a tuft of roots every inch along it, and a nub for stem development, and can […]

Gardeners gather the ingredients to a healthy soil the way cooks stock their cupboards. We are always on the lookout for soil amendments because you can never have enough. I’ve been known to slow down when driving past bales of hay or straw, wondering if they have gotten wet and will soon be available for a buck each 🙂 Leaves […]

I’m delighted to have a coyote patrolling the garden perimeter at night. Every garden invader is at risk now. Mice, gophers, rats, possums, raccoons, rabbits and squirrels are all prey, so I should be having fewer invasions. Trapping is fun though, but dispatching the animals is not. Mr. Coyote is welcome to them. He was just outside the back gate […]

No gardening got done on Christmas day, but a big bag of wrapping paper makes for a great burn pile the day after. Once you get out of the house and start moving around lots of things will dispel your cabin fever. Being cold makes you want to go back in but a fire keeps you entertained. I start thinking […]

My garden often feels like a dissertation. An extremely complex body of work composed one word at a time. I find myself absorbing it one word at a time and letting sentences unfold. I tend to focus on the small things which get overlooked if I’m in a hurry or preoccupied. Half way around the garden I have a paragraph, […]

There is no place for antibacterial hand soap in the garden. Why kill the bacteria before washing them off your hands? They have a job to do wherever they’re going. In fact bacteria are always doing their job just by being alive and eating. All of nature seems to fall into this category except mankind. We get depressed when we […]

I caught a third rat in the same spot as the other two. Same size too, so either he was a visiting uncle, or I’m working on a family of siblings 🙂 I’ve got to rethink my piling garden waste mixed with blackberry vines and grape trimmings along the fence lines because it’s way too enabling for them. It doesn’t […]